Multiple drug-resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 in Rajbari District, Bangladesh

Journal of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-20

  Jahan, Y ^a   Hossain, A ^a  

^a Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Microbial; Shigella dysenteriae; Shigella flexneri; Shigellae

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; NALIDIXIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DIARRHEA; FECES; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SHIGELLA DYSENTERIAE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0030776251     PISSN: 02538768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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